Psalm 141

Come Quickly to Me// Psalm 70:1–5

A Psalm of David.

¹I call upon You, O Yahweh; come quickly to me.

Hear my voice when I call to You.

²May my prayer be set before You like incense;

my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.

• PS 141:2[NOTABLE]David explicitly connects prayer with the rising smoke of incense — the biblical basis for incense-as-prayer symbolism
• PS 141:2[NOTE]INCENSE. Revelation 5:8 says the bowls of incense in heaven are the prayers of the saints.

³Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;

keep watch at the door of my lips.

⁴Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing

or take part in works of wickedness

with men who do iniquity;

let me not feast on their delicacies.

⁵Let the righteous man strike me;

let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion.

It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it.

For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.

⁶When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs,

the people will listen to my words,

for they are pleasant.

⁷As when one plows and breaks up the soil,

so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

⁸But my eyes are fixed on You,

O Yahweh the Lord.

In You I seek refuge;

do not leave my soul defenseless.

⁹Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,

and from the lures of evildoers.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets,

while I pass by in safety.